This is a film about childhood memory and family mythology; some of the events seem perfectly straightforward, while others verge into the fabulous, in the way that time conflates and enlarges childhood memories. It's beautifully made and reminded me a bit of Fellini's idiosyncratic memory films, like AMARCORD.
Historical events are taken for granted, so the more the viewer knows about 20th-century Hungarian history, the more sense the story makes; this would be a good movie to see after watching Szabo's SUNSHINE, which covers the same period, but with a more traditional and informative narrative.
Historical events are taken for granted, so the more the viewer knows about 20th-century Hungarian history, the more sense the story makes; this would be a good movie to see after watching Szabo's SUNSHINE, which covers the same period, but with a more traditional and informative narrative.